| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Wayne's World | $8,430,398 | +0.7% | 1,878 | - | $4,489 | $68,237,680 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 2 | - | My Cousin Vinny | $7,416,751 | - | 1,227 | - | $6,044 | $7,416,751 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | true | false |
| 3 | 2 | The Lawnmower Man | $5,356,688 | -30.9% | 1,298 | +22 | $4,126 | $15,701,780 | 2 | New Line Cinema | false | false |
| 4 | - | American Me | $3,378,100 | - | 830 | - | $4,070 | $3,378,100 | 1 | Universal Pictures | true | false |
| 5 | 3 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $3,344,045 | -15% | 1,327 | -4 | $2,520 | $57,148,824 | 12 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | - | Article 99 | $2,461,469 | - | 1,262 | - | $1,950 | $2,461,469 | 1 | Orion Pictures | true | false |
| 7 | 6 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | $2,070,605 | -35.7% | 1,785 | -173 | $1,160 | $20,206,680 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 8 | Medicine Man | $1,925,524 | -28.8% | 1,190 | -92 | $1,618 | $37,229,400 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 9 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | $1,877,290 | -28.1% | 1,429 | -161 | $1,313 | $75,956,698 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 4 | Gladiator | $1,823,569 | -44.8% | 1,356 | +61 | $1,344 | $5,897,136 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 5 | Once Upon a Crime... | $1,793,192 | -44.8% | 1,101 | - | $1,628 | $6,030,808 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 12 | 10 | Beauty and the Beast | $1,561,547 | -17.9% | 1,171 | -82 | $1,333 | $120,498,901 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 7 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | $1,463,415 | -47.9% | 1,387 | -366 | $1,055 | $11,010,308 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 14 | 17 | The Mambo Kings | $1,318,507 | +340.4% | 185 | +154 | $7,127 | $2,192,258 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 15 | 15 | This Is My Life | $729,420 | +12.3% | 326 | +201 | $2,237 | $2,060,124 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 16 | 16 | Hook | $321,630 | -17.1% | 426 | -78 | $755 | $115,474,374 | 14 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | - | Howards End | $52,568 | - | 1 | - | $52,568 | $52,568 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | true | false |
| 18 | - | Shakes the Clown | $35,589 | - | 9 | - | $3,954 | $35,589 | 1 | IRS Media | true | false |
| 19 | - | Raise the Red Lantern | $22,554 | - | 1 | - | $22,554 | $22,554 | 1 | Orion Classics | true | false |
| 20 | - | Highway to Hell | $12,273 | - | 14 | - | $876 | $12,273 | 1 | Hemdale | true | false |
